MRTAnalysis: Assessing Proximal, Distal, and Mediated Causal Excursion Effects for Micro-Randomized Trials

Provides methods to analyze micro-randomized trials (MRTs) with binary treatment options. Supports three types of analyses: (1) proximal causal excursion effects, including weighted and centered least squares (WCLS) for continuous proximal outcomes by Boruvka et al. (2018) <doi:10.1080/01621459.2017.1305274> and the estimator for marginal excursion effect (EMEE) for binary proximal outcomes by Qian et al. (2021) <doi:10.1093/biomet/asaa070>; (2) distal causal excursion effects (DCEE) for continuous distal outcomes using a two-stage estimator by Qian (2025) <doi:10.48550/arXiv.2502.13500>; and (3) mediated causal excursion effects (MCEE) for continuous distal outcomes, estimating natural direct and indirect excursion effects in the presence of time-varying mediators by Qian (2025) <doi:10.48550/arXiv.2506.20027>.

Version: 0.3.0
Depends: R (≥ 4.2)
Imports: rootSolve, stats, geepack, sandwich, mgcv, randomForest, ranger
Suggests: knitr, rmarkdown, testthat (≥ 3.0.0), SuperLearner, earth, dplyr
Published: 2025-09-09
DOI: 10.32614/CRAN.package.MRTAnalysis
Author: Tianchen Qian ORCID iD [aut, cre], Shaolin Xiang [aut], Zhaoxi Cheng [aut], Audrey Boruvka [ctb]
Maintainer: Tianchen Qian <t.qian at uci.edu>
License: GPL-3
NeedsCompilation: no
Materials: README, NEWS
CRAN checks: MRTAnalysis results

Documentation:

Reference manual: MRTAnalysis.html , MRTAnalysis.pdf
Vignettes: Exploratory Analysis for Micro-Randomized Trial (MRT): Continuous Distal Outcomes (source, R code)
Time-Varying Causal Excursion Effect Mediation in MRT: Continuous Distal Outcomes (source, R code)
Primary and Secondary Analysis for Micro-Randomized Trial (MRT): Proximal Outcomes (source, R code)

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Package source: MRTAnalysis_0.3.0.tar.gz
Windows binaries: r-devel: MRTAnalysis_0.2.0.zip, r-release: MRTAnalysis_0.2.0.zip, r-oldrel: MRTAnalysis_0.2.0.zip
macOS binaries: r-release (arm64): MRTAnalysis_0.3.0.tgz, r-oldrel (arm64): MRTAnalysis_0.3.0.tgz, r-release (x86_64): MRTAnalysis_0.3.0.tgz, r-oldrel (x86_64): MRTAnalysis_0.3.0.tgz
Old sources: MRTAnalysis archive

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